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Snipercraft is dedicated to providing high quality, low cost, real world training to police snipers, designed and taught by men who are intimately familiar with doing the job.   We recognize the value placed on your training dollars and time.  Our programs are designed to optimize both.  We are here to pass on what we have learned to the snipers who will follow in our footsteps.   This is not a business to us.  It is a mission we faithfully execute with both passion and professionalism.  Our commitment is to our students and their operational needs.  Your effectiveness, success and survival start with good training.  With lives hanging in the balance, you can't afford to go out unprepared.  We teach police snipers police sniping.

Our training works because it is based on the real-world experience of hundreds of snipers and thousands of callouts.  What we teach is based on verifiable facts and operational realities.  We teach what works, what doesn't and we take the time to explain why.  Our record and reputation speak to our effectiveness. With over almost two decades of service to the tactical community, we have trained several generations of operational snipers.  This doesn't happen without cause.  We have earned the trust of snipers and their agencies throughout the country.

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"A very professional class that provided good information and practical application.  The best that I have attended.  All snipers and departments should not accept less."

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Snipers can target personnel or materiel, but most often they target the most important enemy personnel such as officers or specialists (e.g. communications operators) so as to cause maximum disruption to enemy operations. Other personnel they might target include those who pose an immediate threat to the sniper, like dog handlers, who are often employed in a search for snipers.
A sniper identifies officers by their appearance and behavior such as symbols of rank, talking to radio operators, sitting as a passenger in a car, having military servants, binoculars/map cases or talking and moving position more frequently. If possible, snipers shoot in descending order by rank, or if rank is unavailable, they shoot to disrupt communications.
Since most kills in modern warfare are by crew-served weapons, reconnaissance is one of the most effective uses of snipers. They use their aerobic conditioning, infiltration skills and excellent long-distance observation equipment and tactics to approach and observe the enemy. In this role, their rules of engagement let them engage only high value targets of opportunity.
Some rifles, such as the Denel NTW-20 and Vidhwansak are designed for a purely anti-materiel (AM) role, e.g. shooting turbine disks of parked aircraft, missile guidance packages, expensive optics, and the bearings, tubes or wave guides of radar sets. A sniper equipped with the correct rifle can target radar dishes, water containers, the engines of vehicles, and any number of other targets. Other rifles, such as the .50 caliber rifles produced by Barrett and McMillan are not designed exclusively as AM rifles, but are often employed in such a way, providing the range and power needed for AM applications in a lightweight package compared to most traditional AM rifles. Other calibers, such as the .408 Cheyenne Tactical and the .338 Lapua Magnum are designed to be capable of limited AM application, but are ideally suited as long range anti-personnel rounds.